Question

i have following code:

SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE thread = $thread
AND (user != $user1 OR user != $user2)

i want the code to pick all rows that contains $thread BUT the user isn’t $user1 or $user2.

is my code correct? or should it be like:

SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE thread = $thread
(AND user != $user1 OR user != $user2)

thanks in advance

Answer 1

Use this:

SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE thread = $thread
(AND user != $user1 AND user != $user2)

Because you don’t want if the user is either of user1 or user2, for this reason using ‘AND’ will be proper option here.

Also if the $thread is not an integer field, you need enclose it in quotes eg:

WHERE thread = '$thread'